The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-01-15
Maryland Affairs.


There were 157 deaths and 253 births in
Baltimore last week.
r. Brown Henderson has been appointed
postmaster of Frederick.
David Bowers died suddenly at his resi-
dence at Funkstown, Washington county, on
Tuesday, of heart disease.
John J. German, Trusten Polk and Frank
Smith have been appointed gaugers for the
Maryland internal revenue district.
| The Short-Line Railroad, between Balti-
more and Annapolis, is about completed.
The distance between the two cities by the
new route is 25 miles.
John Jamison, son of n well known grocer
of Baltimore, committed suicide on Monday
in house of evil repute in that city by swal-
lowing laudaum.
| Allen Falls, Jr., of Port Deposit, has been
| fued $500 and sent to Jail for so days by the
circuit court of Cecil county, for violating the
| local option law.
Henry C. Foster, who was injured in the
/ Baltimore and Ohio Railroad disaster near
Republic, Ohio, last week, has sued the COM
pany for $4,000 damages.
Jos. Davis, colored, was arrested in Bati-
more on Wednesday. He had on two coats,
three vests, two calico shirts, two undershirts,
The clothing was stolen.
Sheriff Robert R. Carman, of Hartford
county, was taken sick last Sunday and died
on Wednesday of congestion of the kidneys.
He was a native of Baltimore county, and a
brother of George FL. Carman.
Ten fremen were injured by the falling of
the roof of the warehouse of the Empire Line
Transportation Company, North street, be-
tween Centre and Monument, Baltimore,
early Wednesday morning, during fire.
Rev. I. r. Marsh, Methodist Episcopal
pastor at Mount Savage, died there on Mon
day night, after a long illness. of typhoid
fever. He was native of Hartford county,
and 81 years old. He was to have been mar
ried in February.
Mrs. Rebecca Walker, aged ninety-fve
! years, died on January II, at her residence
in Cumberland. Mrs. Walker was the Oldest
citizen in Allegany county, except Mrs. Nancy
Miller, who lives in Cumberland, aged one
hundred and six years.
A large iron safe in the office of D. Titlow
& Sons, grain and flour dealers, East Patrick
street, Frederick, was blown open some
time between Saturday night and Monday
morning, and about $50 in cash taken there
from. Entrance into the building was eff
fected through rear window In order to
of bags filed with grain were placed against
the door.
Edward Spohler and John Menke, two
Germans, boarded with August Ulrich, who
keeps saloon ON the Belair road, two miles
from Baltimore. The two men were standing
in Ulrich's saloon on Sunday morning. when
Spohler accused Menke of being untrue to
him. Menke denied the charge, when Spohler
drew knife and attacked Menke. The latter
ran into an adjoining room. Spohler drew a
pistol and followed, and fred three balls at
him. Menke escaped without being hurt.
and Spohler, seeing what he had done, fired
two balls into his breast and fell dead. The
two men had been intimate friends.
At the Frederick Junction of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Saturday afternoon Chas.
Bassford, aged 81 years, employed as a brake
man on freight train, in attempting to couple
cars while in motion, slipped on the ice, fell
under the wheels, and was almost instantly
killed. His body was dragged some distance
until the Monocacy bridge cached, when
i it dropped from the track and fell into the
river Young Bassford was resident Of
Hagerstown, where he left his wife and one
child Saturday morning to go out on his first
trip as brakeman, after having eagerly waited
for some time for orders to go to work.
Saturday night he was sent BACK to his home
a corpse.
A sad accident, resulting in the death from
burning of Mrs. Arden, wife of Charles l.. F.
Arden, occurred at Arlington, Baltimore
county, Saturday night. She had just seated
herself in a rocking chair with some work in
her hand, about $50 o'clock, in the sitting
room on the first floor, when, it is supposed,
the slight jar from the rocking of the chair
caused the chain suspending swinging coal
oil lamp to break. She was seated under the
lamp to get the best light, and in falling il
struck Mrs. Arden, and breaking exploded,
saturating her clothes with the oil. In an
instant she was sheet of fame, and, shrek
ing in agony, she ran for the front door, prob
ably to reach the snow in the yard. Her
husband was prompt in rendering aid. He
first attempted to smother the flames with
floor rugs and by wrapping his coat around
her, but only succeeded in extinguishing the
flames by carrying her out and enveloping her
in the snow. Her clothing was reduced to
shreds and her flesh was burned so that the
skin peeled of. Notwithstanding the shock
nature of the accident and her intense suffer
ing, she lived until O. clock Sunday morning.
Mr.. Arden had both hands badly burned in
trying to extinguish the flames.